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Friday, September 23, 2016

Growing in Unity Day 5Today is the last and final day of my week as a Unity Gal!!! As sad as that is. I have always loved and enjoyed being apart of the Growing in Unity. Unity Stamp company is a wonderful family operated company that truely loves their customers and fans as well as want the best possible product for us all. Thank you Unity for letting me be apart of this for yet another year!!! Don't forget to leave me a comment here and for the last 4 days as well to be entered in the drawing for a grab bag of Unity stamps. For today I went back to paper making and designed a tag using some really neat stamps from Unity.

I always cut out my tag in a hard card stock first to make it more durable. I mean we want these things to last, don't we? I then found some neat paper from my stash to be my back ground. I started stamping images on different color papers until I found the perfect match. Going thru my stash of little peices I found some cute arrows and peices that just seemed to pull it all together. Using Tim Holtz distress stamper and some ink I stamped around the arrow, the free spirit stamp and the banner to add distressing. After playing around for a while I found the places each peice seem to fit just right.Here's my tag for today....

It has that mixed media type feel.

And something we all should live by... A Free Spirit!!!

Sometimes, we all need to free ourselves from everyday stress and problems we all deal with. Be free for a while and find our peace of mind.

I hope I was able to inspire at least one person out there this week.

Please make sure you go back to the other days this week and see my projects.

Don't forget to comment on each day for more chances. I will be picking 2 winners by the end of the weekend. So go on and leave your comments to win a grab bag of Unity Stamps!!!

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Hey there crafty friends, I hope you have enjoyed my blog posts so far. Today is a special day because my project will be up on the Unity blog today. Well and its my Birthday today too...But head over and check it out over there too.

Make sure you leave a comment here before you go.....

you do want a chance to

WIN

Right?

Then make sure you check out and comment on every post here on my blog this week.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

If not head back over and check out my Halloween night canvas and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to WIN a grab bag of stamps from Unity!!!

For today's project I took a leap into the future a wee bit for Christmas. Although, those that usually make Christmas card to send out start earlier than you might think. I however don't usually get to make Christmas cards very often.

And if you ask my family, we are pretty horrible about sending cards out on time anyway. We always have blamed our grandma for that. She accepts the blame too. With great pleasure.

Now onto my card I made today. I haven't had the chance to use these cute lil' reindeer yet so I decided a Christmas card would be perfect.

Here is my card......

And a couple up close photos...

To see the details.

I decided because I wanted all the reindeer on the card, to make it a longer card, which is good because I can always put a letter in it as well when mailing it off.

I used Bo- Bunny's Elf magic collection as my main back ground.

After stamping the stamps on brown paper, which seemed appropriate for the reindeer, I cut around them leaving a lil' bit of space to outline them.

It gave it a cute look. I used color pencils, markers and Gel Pens to color in the parts I wanted to highlight.

I then took other paper from Bo Bunny and outlined behind the image to make it stand out a touch. Using 3D dots, I attached the Reindeer to their designated place on my card. I added a few red snowflakes that seemed to add a perfect touch.

Of course I had to add a sentiment, so I chose "Let it snow".

Here is another picture for you to see the 3D effect.

Thats is it for today.

Supplies used:

Unity Stamps - Reindeer by Lisa Arana

Bo Bunny's Elf Magic collection

Bo Bunny's Silver & Gold Collection

Core'dinations pastel card-stock

Spectrum Noir - Marine - Color pencils

Markers and Gel pens

3D Dots

red snowflakes from my stash

I hope i have inspired you today and you enjoyed my project.

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WIN a grab bag of stamps from Unity!!!

And for more chances, comment each day of the week, here on my blog. And Head over to the Unity website and check out all of their amazing stamps. You will be glad you did.

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Monday, September 19, 2016

Growing in UnityDay 1Halloween inspired....Hey crafty friends.... It's that time again... Another great year as a GIU Girl.
I always have loved being able to be apart of Growing in Unity. Unity Stamp Company is a great company and has amazing stamps... Have you seen the selection? So many beautiful stamps to create with.

Here's how it works.... I post a project that was inspired by using Unity stamps every day this week. You get to visit with me every day here on my blog and if you leave a comment every day, I will enter you into a giveaway at the end of the week to win some Unity stamps of your own. Sounds like a good deal to me. There will be 2 winners.

As you can see if you view past blog posts, I haven't posted in a while. I guess I needed a much needed break from blogging for a while and what a great way to starting blogging again. So lets get on to it..

My first project this week was inspired by Halloween, its coming up so quickly. I started out with a black canvas. This is my first time using them, as I always just used white ones. I wanted to use some of Unity's stamps that I have either not used yet or that I found more challenging on canvas.
Here is what I came up with....

Unity stamps I chose for this project were from the November 2014 smak kit.
The moon, flying birds and the tree branch.

I wanted the image to look dark and more Halloween night looking.

I used different color ink pads from Archival and Colorbox along with Tim Holtz distress stamper and my hands to blend the colors in the sky. I used Faber-Castell PITT artist pen for the water.
I added the tree limb because every time I take a picture one always seems to get in the way. But also to reflect it off the water as well. I think it came out pretty well. This project was also to show everyone that Stamps are not just for paper... They can be used in so many creative ways. You just have to open your mind and think outside the box. I hope you liked my project today and I do have some pretty neat projects in store for you this week.

And dont forget the leave me a comment. I like hearing what you think as well as Hey... There is a chance to win some amazing Unity stamps. (Grab bag of 25 stamps). There will be 2 winners.

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About Me

I am a mother of a great and lovable son. I have an incredible man in my life that supports me in my Art, which is an amazing feeling to have. Art is my passion and I love to be able to get messy and create awesome things. I enjoy designing for art and craft companies. "Being able to be inspired is great, but to inspire others is amazing."